Ok. I tried. And tried, and tried.
I set up a mailing list on Yahoo groups thinking, "how hard
could it be?" The answer has turned out to be "damn near
impossible". (If anyone has any alternatives to offer, I
would be glad to hear of them. Or, if anyone is thinking of
following in my footsteps, the remainder of this message
might help you avoid the pitfalls I fell into.)
Oh, it was easy enough to set up the group. But becoming
*part* of it is another matter. Herewith, a small litany
of the issues:
* The help documents talk about "primary" and "alternate"
email addresses. But there are no fields labeled
"primary address" anywhere -- only "alternate addresses".
* It turns out that any address other than a yahoo email
account is considered an "alternate" email address.
* So, attempting to use the "alternate" address as the
home address, and counting on the primary address as
being your work address, for example, simply doesn't
work.
* It therefore appears that you need to sign up twice at
Yahoo -- once from your own address, and once frok your
work address.
* Having created the work, I then found I couldn't send
a message to it! That may have been because I had set
my "alternate" address to my home address? Not sure.
* To be able to send to the list, I had to send myself
and invitation to join, and reply to it.
* But now, having joined as a subscriber, I now got two
copies of my post -- one to myself as owner, and another
to myself as subscriber.
* So I deleted myself as subscriber. I was sort of hoping
that, having "broken the ice", I would now be able to
send. But no such luck.
* The only remaining option, it appears, is to add myself
back as a subscriber, give my subscriber-self all of the
admin options possible, and delete my owner-self.
* At the moment, I'm trying to do that. Only it appears
that attempts to send myself an invitation no longer
work, probably as a result of having deleted myself!
God, what a nightmare.
Finally, I have received no response whatever from Yahoo
to any messages I have sent, other than the very first. (At
this point I've sent a round half-dozen or so.)
In short, the mailing list mechanism appears to be powerful,
but it is far from intuitive, and their ability to respond
appears to be painfully underwhelming.
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